Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them realised then just how handy the cellar lights would be before long . |
| 2 | I realized then just how many times , over the months , I had had evidence of this fear , and how careful I had always been to avoid doing or saying anything that could threaten the bastions he erected to guard his frail defences . |
| 3 | I got round just as |
| 4 | After I got my free plaster and sticky tape to keep the cotton wool swab on I found not just a cup of tea and rich tea on offer but a wide choice of beverages and crisps and chocolate biscuits all individually wrapped — from looking at that feast you would n't believe the NHS is strapped for cash . |
| 5 | But then I found out just how hard life could really be . |
| 6 | I thought she might have been the subject of a newspaper article or something like that , but it was n't until later that I found out just how famous she was . |
| 7 | the dining chairs , I 've had everything out at least I have n't cleaned the windows but , I was half way through , well I was almost finished , I 'd just just done the stairs though and Bernie came ! |
| 8 | Puts , but she knew that if she 'd bought me one with all those buttons , I 'd off just confused her |
| 9 | Oh I 'd better just er . |
| 10 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 11 | Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’ |
| 12 | After all , I 'd only just stopped doing my paper-round and I heard them talking about headlong stuff I never knew about before : abortions , heroin , Sylvia Plath , prostitution . |
| 13 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 14 | I 'd only just bought the Granada . |
| 15 | Well I 'd only just brought it in the kitchen actually . |
| 16 | and I mean I then I 'd only just had my operation an and to actually drive for longer than about twenty minute journeys was killing so |
| 17 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 18 | And that 's where I was lying when I came round just now . |
| 19 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 20 | I know just now when I came in just now you were doing some housework . |
| 21 | I came out just before the baby was born . |
| 22 | It 's a whole week , mind we do n't go out and erm when I came home just , the last evening , you know , after the play |
| 23 | I start , for example , with an initial event : Yesterday , I arrived home just after dark . |
| 24 | I arrived home just before midnight , the Institute beckoning early next morning to share my moment of glory ( there have n't been too many of those with my beloved , knowing how proud she would be of her hero ! ! |
| 25 | There were so many times I felt like just packing it in and going home . |
| 26 | This was just as well , for I saw only just in time a hen crossing my path in the most leisurely manner . |
| 27 | I looked up just now to acknowledge the Hon. Member for Dumfries , but , of course , it was a futile gesture because once again , there is not a solitary Conservative Member of the Standing Committee present other than the Minister and the Whip . |
| 28 | cos time was going on and I thought well just watch that , I knew you wanted it taped and I thought time were going on |
| 29 | I went to this party at Mr Midwinter 's and it 's a wonderful house with footmen and things , and I went in just the sort of clothes I 'd wear for a party here in Helsinki . |
| 30 | I did not just give up after one attempt . |